[Greg Janza]

ok, I guess my next step would be to start a new project and only import the proxies into it.

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[Greg Janza]

Have you added the proxy toggle button in your source and timeline window so that you’re sure about which you’ve selected for playback? It sure sounds like you’re not selecting the proxies when playing back.

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[Greg Janza]

https://youtu.be/57Aek730DNU

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[Greg Janza]

Rev does a very good job with a relatively quick turnaround time but traditional transcription services just don’t have much of a future.

Digital Anarchy makes a Premiere plugin called Transcriptive. The plugin works in partnership with the two major online speech recognition engines – Speechmatics and Watson.

The plugin bounces any interview to one of the two engines, the speech recognition engine does the heavy lifting of analyzing the audio and creating the transcription and then that file gets bounced back into the plugin interface in Premiere and gets married to the media file.

There are caveats. It costs money to use the speech engine services and the speech analysis makes mistakes. But here’s why it’s the future of transcription, the mistakes are minimal. I’d guess that it’s accuracy rate is about 95%. The cost of using the speech recognition services is a small fraction of the cost of any traditional service and most importantly the turnaround time for this is a few minutes. For my most recent project I had several 30min interviews and I was able to get transcripts created in less than five minutes.

The only limiting factor at the moment is that it’s a Premiere plugin only but I’m sure that will change.

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[Greg Janza]

[Tony West] “It’s also the time involved. You have to get that footage to the people who will transcribe it and that means transcode the footage and then upload time, and for a doc with hours and hours of footage you are waiting for a while. If you have the time to wait………”

That’s how it used to be. With the incredible advances in speech recognition software, transcripts literally only take minutes to create and that’s why they are even more powerful today.

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[Greg Janza]

In order to save you a lot of time, I’d recommend that you purchase a template and populate it with your stills. There’s a variety of websites that offer up Premiere templates. You’re looking for a stills slideshow template.

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[Greg Janza]

The problem is that you’re thinking about the black layer as a mask for each image when in fact it’s just acting as a pillarbox on top. The black bars won’t move or adjust at all. Only your stills will move. In essence, you’re cutting a square hole with the mask and your stills will be inside that hole.

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[Greg Janza]

reverse it.
Layer 2 = video 2
Layer 1= video 1

put your black layer on video 2
apply the mask to the black layer and not your stills.
nest your stills (video1)

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[Greg Janza]

reverse your thinking.

create a black video layer and put it on layer 2
add your stills to layer 1
add a mask to the black video layer and instead of dragging it out to increase the size use the pen tool and create a box with four points which match the size you’d like your stills to fill the frame, reduce that mask feather to zero and select invert on the mask.
now customize each stills size so that each still fills the pillarboxed frame and move the anchor point of each slide to the center of the frame.
nest all of your stills
set scale keyframe at beginning and end of your nest depending on how much you want the stills to move.

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[Greg Janza]

No, VLC is only for computer playback. The Decklink 4k Mini Monitor works with external monitors.

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